Rare Mexican porpoise faces 'imminent extinction' An immediate extension of a fishing ban is desperately needed to save the world's most endangered marine species. Campaigners say there are only 30 vaquita porpoises left, with their population having plummeted by 90% since 2011. These dark-ey...

Oldest buckthorn fossilised flowers found in Argentina Around 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period, a giant asteroid crashed into the present-day Gulf of Mexico, leading to the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs. How plants were affected is less understood, but fossil rec...

'Incredibly rare' William Caxton print discovered Pages printed more than 500 years ago by William Caxton, who brought printing to England, have been discovered by the University of Reading. There are no other known surviving examples of these two pages anywhere in the world, from a book believed...

The Hindenburg disaster took place on Thursday, May 6, 1937, as the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, which is located adjacent to the borough of Lakehurst, New Jersey. Read mo...

Jurassic animal found on Skye 'fed milk to young' Palaeontologists believe an animal that lived in what is now Skye 165 million years ago fed milk to its young. Milk teeth have been discovered in the fossil jaw of a juvenile Wareolestes rex, a species of mammal from the Middle Jurassic. Scientists sug...

China launches second aircraft carrier China launched its second aircraft carrier Wednesday morning in a Dalian shipyard in Liaoning Province, northeast China. The new carrier, the first developed and built by China, was transferred from a dry dock into water at a launch ceremony, starting abou...

Small dogs may all originate from the Middle East, according to research from the University of California. A study published in the journal BioMed Central found a gene found in small dogs, IGF1, is closely related to one found in Middle Eastern wolves. Archaeologists have found the remains of smal...

One of the biggest truffles found in decades has fetched $330,000 (£165,000) at an auction held simultaneously in Macau, London and Florence. A Macau casino owner, Stanley Ho, made the record-breaking bid for the white truffle, which weighed 1.5kg. Luciano Savini and his son found the highly-pri...

More than 100,000 salmon worth over £1m have been killed in a freak jellyfish attack. It has wiped out Northern Ireland's only salmon farm and owners are now facing ruin. The massive invasion happened at Glenarm Bay and Red Bay, Cushendun, off the Co Antrim coast. Billions of small jellyfish called M...

Court: Detention of woman in moon rock sting 'degrading' For nearly two hours on May 19, 2011, Joann Davis stood in the parking lot of a California Denny's restaurant... answering questions from a federal agent about a rice-sized piece of moon rock she wanted to sell.... Davis, who was in her 70s, had...

Titanic replica being built by Australian billionaire The BBC has been given an exclusive interview with the Australian billionaire who is in the process of building a replica of the Titanic. Read more

The Battle of Vimy Ridge was a military engagement fought primarily as part of the Battle of Arras, in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France, during the First World War. The main combatants were the Canadian Corps, of four divisions, aga...

Solid gold coin worth $4m stolen from Berlin museum A giant gold coin bearing the Queen's image, and worth $4m (£3.2m), has been stolen from a museum in Germany. The Canadian coin, nicknamed the "big maple leaf", has a face value of $1m - but because it is 100kg of pure 24-carat gold, its value is much hig...

Tully Monster Still a Mystery This time last year, two teams of paleontologists announced that they had finally solved one of the most inscrutable mysteries in the history of life on Earth. The Tully Monster - a flat, bug-eyed, nozzle-nosed animal truly worthy of the title Monster - went from a 300 mi...

The Torrey Canyon was a supertanker capable of carrying a cargo of 120,000 tons of crude oil, which was shipwrecked off the western coast of Cornwall, England in March 1967 causing an environmental disaster. On 18 March 1967, owing to a navi...

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